While textualists want to only focus on the actual text of the statute, the purpose of statutory interpretation, in my ...

For many contemporary criminal law theorists, statutory law is supposedly the gold standard. Many believe that statutory legislation is more democratic than having common law crimes. Some maintain ...

Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), one of two prominent Republican senators who support abortion rights, said Thursday that she does not support a Democratic measure that would create statutory right to the ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Statutory instruments are known as Secondary legislation They make changes to the law under powers that have been specified in a previous Act of Parliament. During the passage of a Bill, Parliament ...

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